AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:13

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday November 4, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Algebra and Related Topics, I
Room 410, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Li Guo, Rutgers University at Newark liguo@newark.rutgers.edu
William Keigher, Rutgers University at Newark keigher@newark.rutgers.edu
William Sit, City College (CUNY) wyscc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Using Ritt's characteristic sets to compute the normalizers of the intransitive Lie algebras of vector fields on the plane.
  Phyllis Cassidy*, Smith College (emerita)
  (959-12-283)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Computing the Galois Group of $y^{(3)} + ay' + by = 0,\ a, b \in {\mathcal C}[x]$.
  Peter H Berman*, North Carolina State University
  (959-12-178)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Prounipotent Groups in Differential Galois Theory.
  Andy R Magid*, University of Oklahoma
  (959-12-157)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On a Generic Inverse Differential Galois Problem for GL$_n$.
  Lourdes Juan*, MSRI
  (959-13-123)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Model Theory and Differential Algebra.
  David E Marker*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (959-03-128)

Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Algebra and Related Topics, II
Room 410, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Li Guo, Rutgers University at Newark liguo@newark.rutgers.edu
William Keigher, Rutgers University at Newark keigher@newark.rutgers.edu
William Sit, City College (CUNY) wyscc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Central configurations in the Newtonian N-body problem of Celestial Mechanics.
  Ilias Kotsireas*, Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra
  (959-70-269)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Applications of Cartan's Method of Moving Frames.
  Irina A Kogan*, Yale University
  (959-53-237)
- 3:30 p.m.
  D-modules on smooth toric varieties.
  Mircea Mustata, University of California at Berkeley
  Gregory Smith, University of California at Berkeley
  Harrison Tsai*, Cornell University
  Uli Walther, Purdue University
  (959-14-207)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Differential Operators on Toric Varieties.
  William N Traves*, U.S. Naval Academy
  Mutsumi Saito, Hokkaido University, Japan
  (959-13-91)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Rank Jumps in $A$-Hypergeometric Systems.
  Laura F Matusevich*, University of California at Berkeley
  (959-05-138)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Multivariable Differential Dimension Polynomials.
  Alexander B Levin*, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C.
  (959-12-102)

Sunday November 5, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Algebra and Related Topics, III
Room 410, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Li Guo, Rutgers University at Newark liguo@newark.rutgers.edu
William Keigher, Rutgers University at Newark keigher@newark.rutgers.edu
William Sit, City College (CUNY) wyscc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generalized Differential Resultants and Differential Reultant Sytems in the Ordinary Case.
  Giuseppa Carra'-Ferro*, University of Catania
  (959-13-259)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A $p$-adic Algorithm for Computing Gr\"obner Bases.
  Elizabeth A. Arnold*, Texas A\&M University
  (959-13-241)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Characteristic Sets and Grobner Bases.
  Sally D Morrison*, Bucknell University
  (959-12-240)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Factorisation Free Algorithms in Differential and Difference Algebra.
  Evelyne Hubert*, INRIA
  (959-39-226)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Definitive Computation of Bernstein-Sato Polynomials.
  Anton Leykin*, University of Minnesota
  (959-14-145)

Sunday November 5, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Algebra and Related Topics, IV
Room 410, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Li Guo, Rutgers University at Newark liguo@newark.rutgers.edu
William Keigher, Rutgers University at Newark keigher@newark.rutgers.edu
William Sit, City College (CUNY) wyscc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Formulas for Liouvillian solutions of (third order) linear differential equations.
  Michael F Singer, North Carolina State University
  Felix A Ulmer*, Universite de Rennes 1
  (959-12-115)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On initial value problems for ordinary differential-algebraic equations.
  Frank Leon Pritchard*, York College of The City University of New York
  William Yu Sit, The City College of The City University of New York
  (959-34-124)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The ring of global sections of diffspec $R$.
  Jerald J Kovacic*, New York, NY
  (959-14-85)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Algebraic solutions of linear differential equations.
  Mark van Hoeij*, Florida State University
  (959-34-105)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the invariants of linear ordinary differential equations.
  Manuel Bronstein*, INRIA
  (959-34-220)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Differential equations in positive characteristic.
  Marius van der Put*, University of Groningen
  (959-34-285)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org